Islam in The West, (4 Volume Set)

In recent decades, the number of Muslims in the West has increased rapidly, and interesting transformations of Islam have taken place—to some extent with repercussions in Islamic or predominantly Muslim countries in Asia and Africa. This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge helps to make sense of the burgeoning scholarship in this area.

Volume I (‘Regions and History’) includes studies on the historical development of Islam, as well as key work on the current situation in various regions and countries. Volume II focuses on religion and culture, while Volume III (‘Social and Economic Issues’) assembles vital materials on topics such as gender, family structures, class, poverty, and health. The final volume in the collection (‘Politics and Law’) gathers the best work on, among other things, Muslim involvement in political life; Muslim presence in the public sphere; the media coverage of Islam; and issues of integration and so-called ‘Islamophobia’. Legal issues covered include laws on freedom of religion, minority rights, separate legislation, and debates about veils and halal slaughter.

With a full index, together with comprehensive introductions newly written by the editors, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Islam in the West is an essential new addition to Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies series.

Volume I : Regions and History

Chapter 1 : The Muslim Diaspora and The Islamic World, Islam, Europe’s Second Religion : The New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape
Chapter 2 : The Question of Euro-Islam : Restriction or Opportunity?, Islam in Europe : Diversity, Identity and Influence
Chapter 3 : Islam as Stigma’, When Islam and Democracy Meet : Muslims in Europe and The United States

Part 1 : Southern Europe
Chapter 4 : Spanish-Islamic Civilization’, A History of Islamic Societies
Chapter 5 : Muslims in Italy, Muslims in The West : From Sojourners to Citizens
Chapter 6 : Islam and Modernity in Turkey : Power, Tradition and Historicity in The European Provinces of The Muslim World’, Anthropological Quarterly
Chapter 7 : Breaching The Internal Cycle? Turkey, The European Union and Religion, Islam in Europe : Diversity, Identity and Influence

Part 2 : Eastern Europe
Chapter 8 : The Spread of Islam and Russian Expansion’, Muslims of The Soviet Empire : A Guide
Chapter 9 : Regional Distribution of The Muslim Population of Russia’, Eurasian Geography and Economics
Chapter 10 : The Muslim Experience in The Balkan States : 1919–1991’, Nationalities Papers

Part 3 : Central and Western Europe
Chapter 11 : Islam in France : The Shaping of a Religious Minority, Muslims in The West : From Sojourners to Citizens
Chapter 12 : Islam in The Benelux Countries, Islam, Europe’s Second Religion : The New Social, Cultural, and Political Landscape
Chapter 13 : Islam in Germany, Islam, Europe’s Second Religion : The New Social, Cultural and Political Landscape

Part 4 : Northern Europe
Chapter 14 : British Muslims : Past, Present and Future’, The Muslim World
Chapter 15 : The Nordic Countries, Islam Outside The Arab World

Part 5 : Northern America
Chapter 16 : Muslims in Early America’, The Journal of SouThern History
Chapter 17 : North America, Islam Outside The Arab World
Chapter 18 : Mexican Muslims in The Twentieth Century : Challenging Stereotypes and Negotiating Space, Muslims in The West : From Sojourners to Citizens

Volume II : religion and culture

Part 6 : Popular Religion
Chapter 19 : Ritual Change in a Turkish Alevi Village, The Problem of Ritual : Based on Papers Read at The Symposium on Religious Rites Held at Abo, Finland, on The 13th–16th of August 1991
Chapter 20 : Sacred Narratives Linking Iraqi Shiite Women Across Time and Space, Muslim Networks : From Hajj to Hip Hop
Chapter 21 : Relics and "Baraka" : Devotion to The Prophet Muhammad among Sufis in Nottingham, Reading Religion in Text and Context : Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials

Part 7 : Islamic Thought and Spirituality
Chapter 22 : Legitimizing Islamic Theology at European Universities, The Study of Religion and The Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe : Academic and Religious Freedom in The 21st Century
Chapter 23 : The Interpretational Implications of Progressive Muslims’ Qur’an and Sunna Manhaj in Relations to Their Formulation of a Normative Muslima Construct’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Chapter 24 : Islam, Knowledge, and "The West" : The Making of a Global Islam, Globalization and The Muslim World : Culture, Religion, and Modernity
Chapter 25 : What’s American about American Sufi Movements, Sufism in Europe and North America

Part 8 : Inter-Religious Relations
Chapter 26 : Muslim-Christian Relations in Medieval SouThern Italy’, The Muslim World
Chapter 27 : Shared Symbols : Muslims, Marian Pilgrimages and Gender’, European Journal of Women’s Studies
Chapter 28 : Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in Norway : Popular Realities, Political and Religious Responses, Interfaith Cooperation’, Islamochristiana

Part 9 : Conversion
Chapter 29 : Between Muslim and Christian Worlds : Moriscas and Identity in Early Modern Spain’, The Muslim World
Chapter 30 : Three European Intellectuals as Converts to Islam : Cultural Mediators or Social Critics, The New Islamic Presence in Western Europe
Chapter 31 : Biography and Choice : Female Converts to Islam in The NeTherlands’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Part 10 : Secularization
Chapter 32 : The Secularization of Individual Religious Practice’, When Islam and Democracy Meet : Muslims in Europe and The United States
Chapter 33 : Islam and The Turkish Cypriots’, Social Compass

Part 11 : Literature, Art, and Music
Chapter 34 : "The Ornament of The World" : Medieval Cordoba as a Cultural Centre, The Legacy of Muslim Spain, Vol : 1
Chapter 35 : Literary Productions of Western Sufi Movements, Sufism in The West
Chapter 36 : The Problem of Islamic Art), Muslims Networks : From Hajj to Hip Hop
Chapter 37 : Music is in Our Blood : Gujarati Muslim Musicians in The UK’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Chapter 38 : Rep that Islam : The Rhyme and Reason of American Islamic Hip Hop’, The Muslim World

Volume III : Social and Economic Issues

Part 12 : Nationality and Ethnic Plurality
Chapter 39 : Kinship, Ethnicity and Religion in Post-Communist Societies : Russia’s Autonomous Republic of Kabardino-Balkariya’, Ethnicities
Chapter 40 : Between Home and Home : Conceptions of Sufi Heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Swedish Bosniak Diaspora, Sufism Today : Heritage and Tradition in The Global Community
Chapter 41 : The Transnational Umma : Myth or Reality? Examples from The Western Diasporas’, The Muslim World

Part 13 : Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 42 : Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany’, The Muslim World
Chapter 43 : Migration and The Religiosity of Muslim Women in Spain, European Muslims and The Secular State
Chapter 44 : Overcoming Temptation : On Masculinity and Sexuality among Muslims in Stockholm’, Global Networks
Chapter 45 : Navigating Islam and Same Sex Liaisons among Men in Turkey’, Journal of Homosexuality
Chapter 46 : Gender Dynamics in The Context of Turkish Marriage Migration : The Case of Belgium’, Turkish Studies

Part 14 : Generation
Chapter 47 : Islamic Nurture and Identity Management : The Lifeworld of Pakistani Children in Norway’, British Journal of Religious Education
Chapter 48 : Muslim American College Youth : Attitudes and Responses Five Years After 9/11’, The Muslim World
Chapter 49 : Intergenerational Living Arrangements in Turkey’, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology

Part 15 : Education
Chapter 50 : Education in Europe and Muslim Demands for Competitive and Moral Education’, International Review of Education
Chapter 51 : Muslim Headscarves in Four Nation-States and Schoolss, Civil Enculturation : Nation-State, Schools and Ethnic Difference in Four European Countries
Chapter 52 : Islam and Education in Secular Turkey : State Policies and The Emergence of The Fethullah Gulen Group, Schooling Islam : The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education

Part 16 : Business, Finance, and Labour
Chapter 53 : The Economic Dimension, Muslims in The Enlarged Europe : Religion and Society
Chapter 54 : Problems and Challenges Facing The Islamic Banking System in The West : The Case of The UK’, Thunderbird International Business Review
Chapter 55 : Islamization in Western Europe : Political Consequences and Historical Parallels’, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science

Part 17 : Health
Chapter 56 : Muslim Clients in Health Care and Social Service in Scandinavia, Intercultural Relations and Religious Authorities : Muslims in The European Union
Chapter 57 : Rethinking Sport : Physical Activity and Healthy Living in British South Asian Muslim Communities’, Managing Leisure

Volume IV : Politics and Law

Part 18 : State and Religion
Chapter 58 : The Legal Dimension, Muslims in The Enlarged Europe : Religion and Society
Chapter 59 : Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire : The Politics of Islamic Reformation’, Public Culture
Chapter 60 : The Turkish Diyanet Foundation’, The Muslim World
Chapter 61 : Trying to Understand French Secularism, Political Theologies : Public Religions in a Post-Secular World

Part 19 : Ideologies
Chapter 62 : Who Defines Moderate Islam Post-September 11, Islam and The West Post 9/11
Chapter 63 : Identity, Authority, and Activism : American Muslim Women Approach The Qur’an’, The Muslim World
Chapter 64 : After September 11th : Radical Islamic Politics and European Islam, Muslims in The Enlarged Europe

Part 20 : Perceptions of Islam
Chapter 65 : Roots of Misconception : Euro-American Perceptions of Islam Before and After September 11, Islam, Fundamentalism, and The Betrayal of Tradition
Chapter 66 : Islam and The West : Two Dialectical Fantasies’, Journal of Religion in Europe
Chapter 67 : Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Europe : A Multilevel Analysis of Survey Data from 30 Countries’, Social Science Research
Chapter 68 : Cyber-Islamophobia? The Case of WikiIslam’, Contemporary Islam
Chapter 69 : You Are Now Entering Eurabia’, Race & Class

Part 21 : Political Behaviour
Chapter 70 : Political Islam in The United States and Europe, Political Islam : Challenges for U.S : Policy
Chapter 71 : Religious Authorities of Muslims in The West : Their Views on Political Participation’, Intercultural Relations and Religious Authorities : Muslims in The European Union

Part 22 : Legal Issues
Chapter 72 : The Fiqh Councilor in North America, Muslims on The Americanization Path
Chapter 73 : From Imam to Cyber-Mufti : Consuming Identity in Muslim America’, The Muslim World
Chapter 74 : Family Disputes Involving Muslim Women in Contemporary Europe : Immigrant Women Caught between Islamic Family Law and Women’s Rights’, Religious Fundamentalisms and The Human Rights of Women in Contemporary Europe
Chapter 75 : New Challenges for Islamic Ritual Slaughter : A European Perspective’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies